King James Version
Psalms 50:3 in the King James Version says “Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round a...” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 50 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.”
Psalms 50:3 · KJV
A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. of: or, for Asaph
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
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“Our God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
“and shall not keep silence”
H2790to scratch, i.e., (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad
“before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
“round about”
H5439(as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around
“him and it shall be very”
H3966properly, vehemence, i.e., (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or
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